Philosophy of Language investigates the nature of meaning, the structure of linguistic representation and the role of language in human cognition and communication. It addresses how words acquire ...

The evolution of philosophy can be viewed as a continuous process of self-reconstruction. The 20th century, an era of dramatic change in linguistic and cognitive theories, accelerated this ...

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 34, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE WITH THE SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY (2020), pp. 378-389 (12 pages ...

The best class I took in college was on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Until that point, I had avoided philosophy of language as simply being too esoteric and hermetic to be of use. David Pears, ...

Since the publication of his 2018 bestseller, “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” Yale’s Jason Stanley has become a familiar presence on radio and television news broadcasts. The Jacob ...

The M.A. program in Philosophy at Boston College offers students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the history of philosophy and to work on topics as diverse as, for instance, Aristotelian ...

Within this wide field lie questions about the ultimate nature of reality and about our own nature as beings who inhabit this reality and are capable of thinking, knowing and communicating about it: ...